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Elizabeth Young (journalist)
Elizabeth Jesse Young (6 February 1950 – 18 March 2001) was a London-based literary critic and author, who wrote principally on cult writers for a range of British newspapers and magazines. In particular she championed transgressive fiction, for which she received some criticism in the press, not least for her defence of A. M. Homes' '' The End of Alice'', which dealt with themes of paedophilia from what was seen as an uncomfortably neutral perspective. Biography Born to Scottish parents in Lagos, Nigeria where her father was an executive for Rowntrees, Elizabeth Young's parents were members of the Free Church of Scotland (sometimes referred to as the Wee Frees) and she was educated at The Mount School, York where she boarded. Young discovered at the age of 11 the works of Nelson Algren, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac when an uncle sent her some books by these writers. The enduring fascination with the Beats was to stay with her. Young studied English at York Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Fashion
Gothic fashion is a clothing style marked by dark, mysterious, antiquated, homogenous, and often genderless features. It is worn by members of the Goth subculture. Dress, typical gothic fashion includes dyed black hair, exotic hairstyles, dark lipstick and dark clothing. Both male and female goths can wear dark eyeliner, dark nail polish and lipstick (often black) for a dramatic effect. Male goths use cosmetics at a higher rate than other men. Styles are often borrowed from the punk fashion (such as spiked wristbands and chokers) and can also draw influence from Victorians and Elizabethan fashion. Goth fashion is sometimes confused with heavy metal fashion and emo fashion. Characteristics Cintra Wilson declares that "The origins of contemporary goth style are found in the Victorian cult of mourning." Valerie Steele is an expert in the history of the style. Goth subculture is stereotyped as eerie, mysterious, and complex, and the fashion is used as an outlet to express ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poppy Z Brite
Billy Martin (born May 25, 1967), formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author. He initially achieved fame in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections. He is best known for his novels '' Lost Souls'' (1992), '' Drawing Blood'' (1993), and '' Exquisite Corpse'' (1996). His later work moved into the genre of dark comedy, with many stories set in the New Orleans restaurant world. Martin's novels are typically standalone books but may feature recurring characters from previous novels and short stories. Much of his work features openly bisexual and gay characters. Career Martin is best known for writing gothic and horror novels and short stories. His trademarks include featuring gay men as main characters, graphic sexual descriptions, and an often wry treatment of gruesome events. Some of Martin's better known novels include '' Lost Souls'' (1992), '' Drawing Blood'' (1993), and the controver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Esquire'', ''The Best American Short Stories'' (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and '' The O. Henry Prize Stories'' (1998, 2008). Her books include the short story collection ''Bad Behavior'' (1988). Life Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She has lived in New York City, Toronto, San Francisco, Marin County and Pennsylvania, as well as attending the University of Michigan, where she earned her B.A. in 1981 and won a Hopwood Award. She sold flowers in San Francisco as a teenage runaway. In a conversation with novelist and short story writer Matthew Sharpe for ''BOMB Magazine'', Gaitskill said she chose to become a writer at age 18 because she was "indignant about things—it was the typical teenage sense of 'things are wrong in the world and I must say something.'" Gaitskill has also recounted (in her essay "Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Texier
Catherine Texier, novelist, journalist, and creative writing professor, was born and raised in France and now lives in New York City. She is the author of four novels, ''Victorine'' (2004), ''Chloé l'Atlantique'' (1983), ''Love Me Tender'' (1987) and ''Panic Blood'' (1990), and a memoir, ''Breakup'' (1999). She was the coeditor of the literary magazine '' Between C & D'', is a regular contributor to ''The New York Times'', and has written for ''Newsday'', ''ELLE'', '' Harper's Bazaar'', ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Marie Claire'', and Nerve.com. She also edited the anthologies ''Between C and D: New Writing from the Lower East Side Fiction Magazine'' (1988) and ''Love is Strange: Tales of Postmodern Romance'' (1993), both with former spouse Joel Rose. The translator of several books, she is a recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and a National Endowment for the Arts Award, her work has been translated into ten languages. Partial bibliography *''Chloé l'Atlant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wojnarowicz
David Michael Wojnarowicz ( (September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorporated personal narratives influenced by his struggle with AIDS as well as his political activism in his art until his death from the disease in 1992. Biography Wojnarowicz was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, where he and his two siblings and sometimes their mother were physically abused by their father, Ed Wojnarowicz. Ed, a Polish-American merchant marine from Detroit, had met and married Dolores McGuinness in Sydney, Australia, in 1948 when he was 26 and she was 16. After his parents' bitter divorce, he moved to New York as a teenager with his young mother, Australian-born Dolores. During his teenage years in Manhattan, Wojnarowicz worked as a street hustler around Times Square. He graduated from the High School of Music & Art in Manha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Rose
Joel Rose is an American novelist. Career His novels include ''The Blackest Bird'' (2007), '' Kill the Poor'' (1988), and ''Kill Kill Faster Faster'' (1988). He also authored the urban historical, ''New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical'' (2001), and was editor of a collection that included work by Anthony Bourdain, Mat Johnson, Franz Lidz, and Jerry Stahl, among others. Rose's 1980s short stories, which appeared in a number of magazines, were called "scintillating slices of life in Manhattan's notorious Alphabet City . . . in a strong, sure style that never strains" by ''LA Weekly''. His articles has appeared in magazines and newspapers including ''BlackBook'', ''Bomb'', ''Details'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Marie Claire'', ''New York'', ''New York Newsday'', ''The New York Times'', and ''PAPER''. He also established and co-edited (with Catherine Texier) the Lower East Side quarterly literary magazine '' Between C & D'' (1983–1990), and has written for several tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serpent's Tail
Serpent's Tail is London-based independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Pete Ayrton. It specialises in publishing work in translation, particularly European crime fiction. In January 2007, it was bought by a British publisher Profile Books. Publications The firm publishes both fiction and non-fiction books. Boyd Tonkin, writing for The Independent, has described the publisher's list: "from hard-boiled noir to gems in translation and left-field cultural reportage – often defines the meaning of 'cool'." Noted writers * Derek Raymond * Elfriede Jelinek * Elizabeth Young * Herta Müller * Jonathan Trigell * Kathy Acker * Kenzaburō Ōe * Lionel Shriver * Nicholas Royle * Stella Duffy Noted debut novels * ''Nineteen Seventy-Four'' by David Peace * '' The South'' by Colm Tóibín * ''Whatever'' by Michel Houellebecq High Risk Books High Risk Books was an imprint of Serpent's Tail that existed from 1993-1997. It was founded by Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poppy Z
A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. One species of poppy, ''Papaver somniferum'', is the source of the narcotic drug opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as an analgesic and narcotic medicine, medicinal and recreational drug. It also produces Poppy seed, edible seeds. Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of Remembrance Day, remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime, especially in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth realms. Description Poppies are herbaceous plant, herbaceous Annual plant, annual, Biennial plant, biennial or short-lived Perennial plant, perennial plants. Some species are monocarpic, dying after flowering. Poppies can be over a metre tall with flowers up to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Cooper
Dennis Cooper (born January 10, 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist. He is best known for the ''George Miles Cycle'', a series of five semi-autobiographical novels published between 1989 and 2000 and described by Tony O'Neill "as intense a dissection of human relationships and obsession that modern literature has ever attempted." Cooper is the founder and editor of ''Little Caesar Magazine,'' a punk zine, that ran between 1976 and 1982. Early life Cooper was born in Pasadena, California and raised in Arcadia, the son of Clifford Cooper, a self-made businessman who was one of the early designers of parts for unmanned space expeditions. His parents were politically conservative, with his father acting as an advisor to several presidents, including Richard Nixon, with whom he cultivated a close friendship. One of his brothers, Richard, was named after Nixon. Cooper's parents divorced when he was in his early teens. Cooper attended public schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. Ellis was first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels commonly share recurring characters. When Ellis was 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller '' Less than Zero'' (1985), was published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel, '' American Psycho'' (1991), was his most successful. Upon its release the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year. Ellis's novels have become increasingly metafictional. ''Lunar Park'' (2005), a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews. '' Imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clash
The Clash were an English rock music, rock band formed in London in 1976 who were key players in the original wave of British punk rock. Billed as "The Only Band That Matters", they also contributed to the and new wave music, new wave movements that emerged in the wake of punk and employed elements of a variety of genres including reggae, Dub music, dub, funk, ska, and rockabilly. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer, lead guitarist and vocalist Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist), Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon, and drummer Topper Headon, Nicky "Topper" Headon. Headon left the group in 1982 due to internal friction surrounding his increasing heroin addiction. Further internal friction led to Jones' departure the following year. The group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1986. The Clash achieved critical and commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their self-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
